Helping Florida’s Youth: Facilitating Re-Entry Interventions Subsequent to Brain Injury (FRISBI)
Speaker: Dr. Drew Nagele
This session will reveal an over-represented brain injury population – youth who have an undiagnosed brain injury, who are in residential juvenile treatment programs. We will describe research that is underway, funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, and administered through Florida Juvenile Justice Department and the University of South Florida, to identify these youth, using brain injury screening and neurocognitive assessment. Once identified, these youth are worked with through Resource Facilitation to give them a different path forward in their lives, utilizing brain injury services and supports. Current progress, trends and successes will be described.